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By Larry JohnsoncloseAuthor: Larry JohnsonName: Larry JohnsonEmail: lcjohnson1@me.comSite:http://NoQuarterUSA.netAbout: Larry C. Johnson is a former analyst at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, who moved subsequently in 1989 to the U.S. Department of State, where he served four years as the deputy director for transportation security, antiterrorism assistance training, and special operations in the State Department's Office of Counterterrorism. He left government service in October 1993 and set up a consulting business. He currently is the co-owner and CEO of BERG Associates, LLC (Business Exposure Reduction Group) and is an expert in the fields of terrorism, aviation security, and crisis and risk management, and money laundering investigations. Johnson is the founder and main author of No Quarter, a weblog that addresses issues of terrorism and intelligence and politics. NoQuarterUSA was nominated as Best Political Blog of 2008.See Authors Posts (2503) on March 2, 2013 at 4:25 PM in Current Affairs

What the hell was Obama thinking? He and his toadies did everything but sacrifice a live virgin on television in their bid to scare the bejesus out of Americans in the lead up to the start of the sequester. Obama and crew played every hysteria card with the exception of portraying the Republicans as sex-crazed zombies hell bent on sodomizing puppies.

Obama demonstrated the utter contempt he has for America and our system of government. He could have seized the moment to exercise true leadership. He could have proposed genuine reforms to entitlement programs and the tax code. Nope. That would have required actually doing some work. Can’t do that–it cuts into his golf game. Instead, he opted to play politics. And he decided to be a complete juvenile dildo in the process.

Barack provided the fawning media the equivalent of a carnival sideshow, except no Bearded Ladies. But we did get Pretzel man. That was Barack. He twisted the truth and the facts about sequester in so many directions that he created a knotted lie worthy of a Harry Houdini trick.

Consider the antics of Obama’s Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan. He came out early in the week with the dire warning:

”Kids are gonna get hurt, kids are gonna get hurt. That’s just the reality,” he said. His visit to the briefing room followed recent appearances by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

Duncan expressed real frustration with Congress for being unable to avoid the spending cuts due to begin taking effect on Friday. The dysfunction is “unimaginable,” he said, and makes him “angry” because students will be “taking steps backwards because folks in Washington can’t get their acts together.”

Duncan named a single county in West Virginia and acknowledged, “whether it’s all sequester-related, I don’t know.”

And, as it turns out, it isn’t.

Officials in Kanawha County, West Virginia say that the “transfer notices” sent to at least 104 educators had more to do with a separate matter that involves a change in the way West Virginia allocates federal dollars designated for poor children.

She said those 104 notices will ultimately result in the elimination of about five to six teaching jobs, which were likely to be cut regardless of the sequester.

I suppose it does not help the Obama cause that even the Washington Post runs with the headline, “Teacher pink slips claim by Duncan not backed by evidence.” Obama’s lies have been so widespread and over the top that the Washington Post is searching for the puppet maker Geppetto. Why? They’ve awarded so many Pinocchio’s for Obama Administration lies that a full-time Geppetto is needed to keep the wooden liars in check.

This is not to say that the economy is going to do swell. Odds are it will not. The news out of Europe is disturbing and dreadful. Unemployment numbers, for example, have hit new highs and currency woes persist.

I was in the Dominican Republic this week and experienced a first–locals prefer Dominican pesos over the dollar. When I traveled to Santo Domingo in 2010, the taxi driver asked for dollars. Same thing in 2008 and 2003. Not this week. As we pulled up to the hotel the chofer (Spanish for driver) told me he would rather get paid in pesos. That means the dollar is losing value. When the dollar loses value, the wealthy overseas lose their interest in buying our bonds and our goods. This is bad news when you consider that we rely heavily on money from overseas to finance our deficit spending spree.

I will have a longer piece on the economy, hopefully by Monday. Culling the take from several articles out of the Financial Times paints a bleak outlook that will not fill you with a warm fuzzy feeling.

well well well the msm being to yap about being lied to about the sequester. they are beginning to nip at the white house. do not know how long this will last until they get smacked and get back in line

between that and backtrack’s policies wondering if the present government is looking forward to starting a civil war

Dew_South

Sequestration resembles the manufactured crisis that birthed Obamacare. Yesterday, one of Gregg Jarrett’s segments discussed companies dropping coverage of spouses.
It is a high probability that means “wives” who typically earn less and use more healthcare services. It also means more economic challenges to family budgets.

Dew_South

Sequestration resembles the manufactured crisis that birthed Obamacare. Yesterday, one of Gregg Jarrett’s segments was a discussion about companies dropping coverage for spouses.
There is a high probability that means “wives” who typically earn less and use more healthcare services. It also means more economic challenges to family budgets.

Dew_South

Apologies for the duplication.

elizabethrc

It just keeps getting better and better! Sec of State Kerry has just given 250 million taxpayer dollars to Egypt! I guess DC isn’t really all that worried about pain in the US if they can squander that much money on an anti-American group of ragheads.
So now we find out that Homeland Security has purchases 2717 light armored tanks! Is it not time to make Congress investigate these affronts to our safety? How can they not see a direct parallel to what DHS is doing and the use of armored vehicles in middle eastern countries to quell and kill their own citizens?
Living in a deplorably Democratic state, Connecticut, I do not hold out much hope that my emails to my representatives will accomplish much, but if enough of us do this, maybe they will take action.
I’m hopeful that enough citizens will contact the tank manufacturer (who makes more citizen-friendly products, as well) and ask that they do what the gun manufacturers have and are doing..refuse to sell anything to any government entity. They do listen to their pocketbook.

getfitnow

Here’s a perfect example to prove the silliness of gender equality in everything.

sequester military cuts do not include a drone base near malibu.
surprised the Hollywood elite are not screaming their heads off.
do not think there will be a shortage of personnel who request to be stationed there

Stock market at record highs and the economy is looking bad?
Say it ain’t so!
Thanks Larry. Hope the exchange rate was still in your favor.

foxyladi14

So good a post I shared on FB.Thank you Larry

KenoshaMarge

What the hell happened to “no drama Obama”? He’s been running around doing his best Chicken Little impersonation for weeks.

His hyperbolic routine was/is so bad, and so dishonest, that even his pals in the lap dog media are laughing at him. I don’t think this was what he had in mind.

Then his White House gets into a brouhaha with Woodward for heaven’s sake and allows all the happy conservatives to invoke the ghost of Nixon past.

Tell us again how smart is Obama the mighty mouthy!

getfitnow

I saw the interview with the Romneys….my God how could America reelect that disgrace in the Oval Office when they could have put Romney in there. He is obviously so much smarter, classier and decent.

foxyladi14

Actually I think if it were not for fraud that he would have won.

HELENK2

me too

KenoshaMarge

Did you hear the remark of sourpuss Bill Crystal on the panel? He says Romney isn’t the face of the Republican Party. Does he think he is? Because I don’t. IMO he’s what’s wrong with the party. He and all the others like him that think a bomb is the answer to everything.

I also think the way the Republican Party has treated the Romney’s is disgusting and makes me like them only because the alternative is the repulsive Dems.

Romney told the truth about the free loaders and for that he will never be forgiven. A politician who tells the truth is reviled and rejected.

Dew_South

Mitt Romney would have dedicated all his abilities to improving America’s situation. We have an electorate which votes grievances instead of values.
Now only Boehner’s slim majority is the defensive line against Pelosi reflux.

KenoshaMarge

Crazy Pelosi reflux and total Obama power. And Obama is doing everything he can, with the helpl of his lap dog media to win the midterms and get the House back.

HELENK2

does anyone else get the feeling that they would like to smack the smugness of bill crystal’s face?

KenoshaMarge

Only every time I see his smarmy face. He wouldn’t make a pimple on Romney’s ass! IMO.

Barb Bf

THANKS FOR A GREAT ARTICLE! Pls forward copy to CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, NYT…and you better include FoxNews!

getfitnow

This is o/t, but scary. I received this email from an Obot, passing along job training info from That One. Notice the term “Obama money.” Just tell me which bridges and I’ll avoid at all cost. This is a portion of the email.

*******************************

EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY THAT DOES
NOT REQUIRE A DEGREE!

PLEASE PASS THIS INFO TO
SOMEONE WHO NEEDS IT!

Great jobs for young men &
women who aren’t in college — strong young women! This is President Obama
money for “infrastructure”. The jobs are located all over with
paid training in Atlanta and is an awesome opportunity — these jobs pay
good wages.

Training: You will attend two or three weeks of training at the Railroad
Education & Development Institute in Atlanta , GA. CSX will pay for travel,
lodging and meals as required by collective bargaining agreement.

Machine Operator $23.25-$24.81/hour

Welder Helper $21.93/hour

Bridge Tender $21.93/hour

Bridge Mechanic $22.65/hour

Foreman $22.71-$25.53/hour

Track Inspector $23.98-$25.14/hour

Deapster

How much madder will I get when post-sequestration airport security lines get even longer and more intrusive? I will blame the guy in charge who let this happen because he wanted to punish me for not handing him more money to run up more federal debt.

That is who I will blame – got that Obamination? I will remember one thing only – when you should have led this nation; you rubbed our faces in the messes you alone created and told us to eat it. That is what Democratic governance in response to sequestration means to me.

Yes, the long-term issues we face in regard to the economy are far more serious than this stupid, childish tantrum over the idiotic sequestration. We have a budget battle coming up soon and then all the rest of O’s damage to the economy, especially as far as the Obamacare regulations are concerned. I look forward to the upcoming article.

In the meantime, my partner today just put the management of his Thrift Savings Account (since he had been a federal employee) into the hands of a private financial planner. He’s taking seriously O’s threats to take over all 401k accounts and the like and feels he’ll start with government employees first.

I am wondering whether I should simply let my health go and not treat anything so as not to waste any of my financial assets on healthcare and therefore be able to pass more on to my kids or whether I should treat some issues so as to live very frugally longer and give away some of my retirement income in increments.

What was that dream of a relaxing, fun retirement if not just a dream?

jrterrier

Go to the doctor. Your health comes first. Your children can manage for themselves.

HELENK2

well i am in debt with my new audi, credit cards maxed out so I can’t buy gas. people stopped talking to me after I told them off for annoying me, Kids hate me because I spent their inheritance. Top shelf still gives hangovers. have doctor’s appointment due to things that were not fit to print.

all this because I believed backtrack’s warnings

Dave L.

Are there really 67 million voters that elected this asshole President that really don’t give a shit about the United States ??? As time goes by, I am finding it hard to believe that there is no grand scale buyers remorse. with President Asshat >

Garookie

Dave, in answer to your question, NO!! Only about 52 million voted for him, however a lot of them voted three or four times and combined with the Romney votes that were electronically flipped to Obama it does come out to about 67 million.

jrterrier

Yes. While I still want to believe in my gut that there was voter fraud (all those 100% precints in cities), it does appeal that so many Americans just are not using their heads. You cannot have buyer’s remorse unless you are willing to face facts. And modern American is not about facts.

Case in point — a friend, an intelligent woman, and a rabid Obama supporter, white, middle class, college graduate recently posted on facebook about the high price of food. She was shocked. Yet no recognition or even a question whether the policies of her favorite politician had anything to do with it. I know that basing any analysis on anecdotes is not necessarily scientifically valid, it just seems that I see that type of thinking all around me.

FLDemFem

One town in FL had more votes for Obama than they had registered voters. OOPS!!

win44

What town was that?

There are a lot of stories like that out there, and they’ve all been debunked. Name the town where this allegedly happened, please.

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